InDePickWest
Im Not American
I was busy.she could be busy mane you never know. Hope she does read the thread tho.
semester started last week. My trolling won't be as frequent and prominent but I promise to keep it gangsta when I do come down
Brock Turner walking up out of county this Friday...
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semester started last week. My trolling won't be as frequent and prominent but I promise to keep it gangsta when I do come down
This is the shyt that should light fire under everyone's ass. this is why you see some of us brothers in here bumping this thread non-stop not because we on white feminist side with this action but because shyt like this article has affected to many of our brothers and ruined their lives.
Brian Banks is the anti-Brock Turner
Brian Banks
is proof of an American justice system that seems to have one track for people like him, and another for people like Brock Turner.
Turner is the former Stanford swimmer who was convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in the middle of the night near a dumpster on campus. He tried to flee when confronted by two passersby.
He faced up to 14 years in prison for his acts. On Friday, he was released after serving three months of a six-month sentence.
Turner, now known to many as simply "the Stanford rapist," became a case study in the privilege often afforded to young, wealthy white men. He faced up to 14 years. Prosecutors pushed for six years. Turner was sentenced to six months by a lenient judge. Now, after serving half that, he's a free man, albeit with three years of probation.
Meanwhile, there's another story of a promising athlete whose career withered after he was accused of sexual violence. Banks, however, was a young, black football player who didn't come from a privileged family and a wealthy neighborhood.
Turner served just three months after being convicted of sexual assault. Banks served five years after a high school classmate accused him of rape in 2002, a charge she later recanted.
But before we go on, some context about sexual violence and the criminal justice system: Less than four in 10 rapes are reported to police, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, and just six of every 1,0000 rapists serves jail time; meanwhile, experts say false accusations of rape are extremely rare.
But Banks was an exception.
Exonerated only by a Facebook friend request
Banks participated in an Atlanta Falcons rookie minicamp in 2013.
IMAGE: AP PHOTO/ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION, CURTIS COMPTON
The year is 2002. Banks is a touted high school linebacker in Long Beach, California, with recruiting interest from college football powers including USC.
Then a classmate accused him of raping her in a school stairwell — Banks was 16 years old. He was tried as an adult and faced up to 40 years in prison. He claimed innocence, but took a plea deal. Game over — for 10 years, at least.
Banks served five years in prison and five more on probation as a registered sex offender. His accuser then sent him a friend request on Facebook and said she wanted to meet for closure. Over two secretly recorded meetings, she admitted what Banks had been insisting for a decade: He was innocent. His conviction was overturned in May 2012.
Banks told reporters at the time that he'd taken the plea deal 10 years prior on the advice of his lawyer.
"She told me I was a big black teenager and no jury would believe anything I said," he said.
Still, 10 years of Banks' life, along with his once-promising football career, were lost.
Now contrast his treatment with that of Turner.
Late one night in January 2015, two Stanford students passing by on bicycles found 21-year-old Turner on top of a 23-year-old woman on the ground near a campus dumpster. He tried to flee, but the students caught him and he was arrested.
Turner was convicted of three felony counts of sexual assault: sexual penetration of an intoxicated person, sexual penetration of an unconscious person and assault with the intent to commit rape of an unconscious person.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.
IMAGE: APJASON DOIY/THE RECORDER VIA AP
But his father wrote a letter to Judge Aaron Persky in which he argued that "20 minutes of action" shouldn't result in a long sentence. Persky himself said he feared the "severe impact" prison could have on Turner when he sentenced the former swimmer to just six months in jail.
While Banks was a teenager tried as an adult, Turner was cast by powerful people as a good kid who made a mistake.
Turner's victim read a powerful statement in court in which she said Turner "has only apologized for drinking and has yet to define what he did to me as sexual assault, he has revictimized me continually, relentlessly. He has been found guilty of three serious felonies and it is time for him to accept the consequences of his actions. He will not be quietly excused."
Outrage spread at Persky's lenient sentence. The survivor's letter prompted public statements of support from Vice President Joe Biden, among many others. But Biden and internet commenters are far from the only people disgusted by Turner's treatment.
Banks, the falsely accused football player from Long Beach who is now a speaker and activist, sees a double standard at play.
"It definitely boils down to privilege," Banks said in a CNN interview earlier this summer. "But I think it's different facets of privilege. Its not just privilege by race, but it's also privilege by money. What's your economic background? What's your lifestyle? What's your upbringing? The sad part about this is Brock was sentenced based on his lifestyle, based on his upbringing."
'Pushed along through court as if I didn't exist'
Banks cried when his rape conviction was dismissed in May 2012.
IMAGE: NICK UT/AP
Banks, through his own experience, has a unique perspective.
"I was pushed along through court as if I didn't even exist," he said. "I was a number."
Turner was caught in the act of sexual assault, convicted — and served six months after being humanized in court as a sensitive young man who made a mistake.
Banks, who says he was rushed through the justice system, served five years for something that never happened.
As Banks himself put it on CNN following Turner's release: "I had to live through the consequences of those actions, and I didn't even commit them."
Unfortunately, that's the American justice system: Different tracks for different people, all too often based on race and wealth.
You can watch Banks' full interview using the video embedded below — it's well worth your time.
Banks' case is fukking tragic.
I'm interested to know if the girl that confessed was prosecuted. Should get 10 years at least for perjury/making false reports.
Wouldn't expect you to go after your daddy. But there are some feminists I assume that actually care about all women and don't just throw black men under the bus. That's not you I know. You're just a spectator.White man rapes white woman. Older white man gets white man off.
Damn Black women...stupid bedwenches can't do anything right!!!!
I very well may have to crusade to get you banned.I was busy.
semester started last week. My trolling won't be as frequent and prominent but I promise to keep it gangsta when I do come down
Banks' case is fukking tragic.
And I would never undermine anyone who experienced rape it's a serious matter, it's just knowing as a black man myself if I got accused of this and was innocent but everybody doubted me from the jump, the pain would be unbearable. I truthfully don't know enough about the case I've so far read the call log between the victim and nate parker, it seems to take place 2 months after the incident "http://blacktimetravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nateparkertranscript.pdf"
I just can see myself in any black man in that position and if there is any small shred of a chance he's innocent and his story is true I have to somewhat defend him.
That could be me one day standing before a white jury, facing a white judge, with a white prosecutor, with a white women making accusations all against a BIG BLACK nikka
I know better then to initiate sex with a woman who is obviously inebriated, but sometimes you don't even need to commit the actual action to be accused and it becomes the word of the pre-judged versus the word of the white saint.
I can't say I fully understand the daily struggle of sisters but I promise you we have more common ground than not.
ZoeGod
I’m from Brooklyn a place where stars are born.
Man if he was black......
That privilege tho.
That privilege tho.
InDePickWest
Im Not American
Watching from the sides.Wouldn't expect you to go after your daddy. But there are some feminists I assume that actually care about all women and don't just throw black men under the bus. That's not you I know. You're just a spectator.
Only call flags if a Sista is hurt.
Everyone else has privilege to fall back on even if it's not double like white males.
dude will get a cushy fortune 500 job soon as well
and more than likely he will rape again, just like how joran van der sloot got off then murdered another girl years later
and more than likely he will rape again, just like how joran van der sloot got off then murdered another girl years later
Oh right privilege that intangible boogie man.
I completely agree that there is common ground. America has a long history of stereotyping Black men as sexual predators in order to justify brutality against Black men - the original Birth of A Nation was propaganda for that very purpose.
None of that is lost on me.
Blood thirsty white women and white families would falsely accused Black men of sex crimes. White female virtue and white greed took priority over Black male lives. The woman that lied on Banks is a conspirator of Black male destruction. And I hope she's locked up to rot.
Thousands of innocent Black men have lost their lives over these lies. I promise I'm not ignoring any of that.
And I also can't ignore the situations where Black men actually do rape women. The cases where it's not a lie. Cases like Nate's. Cases like R Kelly's. About 20% of Black women will face a sexual assault attempt in their life. And their attackers are most likely going to be who? Men they know, men they live near... Black men.
I don't have to pledge support to admitted rapists like Nate. Some black people deserve to be shunned for their bad behavior.
And I'm disgusted by this expectation that Black women forgo their right to NOT support rapists.
Jaylen Tatum
Superstar
That's sad the black kid had to do time for a crime he didn't commit. It's fukked up. And now this white boy gets six months cuz prison would've been too hard? 
should've thought of that before committing the crime. This judicial system is all fukked up.
should've thought of that before committing the crime. This judicial system is all fukked up.
Brock Turner, the Stanford rapist, was released on Friday after serving just half of his already pitiful six-month sentence for raping an unconscious woman. And people are understandably unhappy with his early release for "good behavior." In fact, some people are so unhapppy that they're camping outside of Brock Turner's house armed to the teeth.
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Holding signs like “Castrate rapists,” around a dozen people have been using Ohio's open carry laws to basically terrify Turner into not coming home. They were outside the home on Friday and Saturday and promised to return on Sunday.
According to WHIO, local police decided to watch the protest from a distance, while firefighters were called in on Friday night to wash the pavement which was littered with messages like "shoot your local rapist."
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Neighbors aren't very happy with Turner's return either. One told ABC that "to have someone like that in our neighborhood, I have an issue with." Another complained that she'd moved to the area because it had no results on the sex offenders list, that's about to change.
It's unknown whether Turner has returned home or not, though he has failed to register as a sex offender with Greene County Sheriff’s Office as of Saturday evening. Turner will be on probation for a further three years and will remain a registered sex offender for the rest of his life.
Michele Dauber, the Stanford law professor who started a petition to recall Judge Aaron Persky, also organised protests outside the county jail where Turner was released on Friday.
She also told Democracy Now! that the sentence for Turner was “overly lenient” when the state mandates a two-year minimum sentence. "With collegiate athletes, the judge seems to have a blind spot, and doesn’t see these felonies as serious crimes against women," she added.
Diddly Drogba
Superstar
I can't stand rapist